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Quotations regarding 'Expediency'

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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
Charles Adams, -
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
Eric Cantor, American Politician (1963-  )
Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland, American President (1837-1908)
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Quentin Crisp, English Writer (1908-1999)
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author (1921-1990)
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Roy Hattersley, British Statesman (1932-  )
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright (1874-1965)
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel, German Soldier (1891-1944)
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
Charles Schumer, American Politician (1950-  )
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Peter Singer, Australian Philosopher (1946-  )
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus, Roman Historian
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau, American Author (1817-1862)
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu, Philosopher
 
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